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To: Tony Viola who wrote (98560)	2/8/2000 11:16:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "PSN, when all else fails, the D'd'd'd'd'roids can always fall back on it." The D'd'd'd'd'roids are going to go ApeSH*T when they find that AMD is going to add their own version of PSN to their AthWiper chips - to satisfy corporate requirements. You heard it here ! Paul

To: Tony Viola who wrote (98560)	2/8/2000 11:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony & Intel Investors - The Blithering Idiots at YUK Wretchedster can never decide if Merced is DEAD or UNDEAD. Today, Merced/ITanium is UNDEAD - and the main focus of HP, Compaq, Microsoft, etc., according to the guys who came in Second Place (out of TWO) in the Revolutionary War ! Long Live George the III'rd ! Paul {=================================} theregister.co.uk Posted 08/02/2000 12:06pm by Mike Magee HP lens focuses Itanium-Merced strategy It's time to revisit Intel's Merced-Itanium strategy, but this time through the curved lens of partner Hewlett Packard. As we have reported here earlier, initial speeds of Merced will be 800MHz+, the IA-64 at its heart will be a .18 micron processor, it will have cache of four megabytes plus and a frontside bus speed of 133MHz, and the CPUs will scale between 256 and 512. It will also have three levels of cache. It will not use Rambus memory, but DDR memory instead. This, at any rate, is how close Intel partner Hewlett Packard sees the future of the Itanium. It presents a technology case for the IA-64 architecture against the present shape of things to come. According to HP, the cost performance of architectures such as PA-RISC eventually reach the point where cost versus performance reaches the point of diminishing returns. IA-64, on the other hand, avoids these problems, and HP's point of view is that although there is a so-called "level playing field" it will support more OSes than any other vendor, including Linux-64, MPE, HP/UX and Windows NT 64. HP has opened a software and system development lab on the Microsoft campus to port applications, and believes that it will be able to provide a high level of binary compatibility and native re-compiling which will allow it to have more applications available at launch time than its x.86 competitors. The lab at Redmond is concentrating on NT scalability and availability on IA-32 and IA-64 platforms, working on enterprise middleware, and on development tools and environments. Although HP, like many another Intel partner, will announce systems in the middle of the year, it realistically suspects that it will be autumn when production ramps up. HP's competitors, like Compaq, on the other hand, believe that it has extended its PA-RISC architecture up to the year 2003, in order to satisfy its corporate buyers. HP suggests that the Alpha Wildfire system, which is being trickle treated into the marketplace, is the last throw of this particular die. Next week, Intel is expected to spend a considerable amount of time at its Developer Forum on how it sees the future of the IA-64 platform.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (98560)	2/9/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony: Re: eBay too, sounds like everything happens to eBay. This sounds like something firewalls should be handling, keeping out repetitive hacker requests. They do use firewalls, don't they? Check out fbi.gov./nipc/cyberissue2000-02.pdf. Looks like the Feds warned something was up last week. ú A Denial of Service attack tool, stream.c, has been discovered which could cause Unix machines to stop responding. It floods the host with ACK?s coming from random IPs with remote sequence numbers. ú A distributed Denial of Service tool called Stacheldraht has been discovered on compromised hosts of several organizations. There has also been a reported increase in intruders attempting to compromise machines for the installation of distributed Denial of Service tools used for launching packet flooding attacks. Well-known vulnerabilities have been the most common targets for exploitation. Adam